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Volume 22, Issue 5 (September/October 2024) Table of Contents
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Special issue on accessibility
Features
It's Time to Make Software Accessible
For software developers to embrace accessibility in their products, they must first overcome common misconceptions about the nature of disabilities. Then accessibility support should be incorporated from the operating system all the way to the top of the organization.
- Stacy M. Branham and Shahtab Wahid
The State of Digital Accessibility
A team of experts argues the case for digital accessibility from both a professional and personal perspective. They discuss the challenges, point out the leaders in the field, and share their optimism and warnings for the future.
- Stacy M. Branham, Shahtab Wahid, Sheri Byrne-Haber, Jamal Mazrui, Carlos Muncharaz, and Carl Myhill
System-class Accessibility
Using the example of the iPhone's VoiceOver screen reader, the authors show how they used accessibility support at the operating-system level to reimagine touchscreen input for nonvisual use.
- Chris Fleizach and Jeffrey P. Bigham
Accessibility Considerations for Mobile Applications
Bloomberg Connects is a free mobile app that provides digital guides to more than 350 cultural organizations. Here's how it supports accessibility for as broad an audience as possible.
- Juanami Spencer
Design Systems Are Accessibility Delivery Vehicles
Design systems smooth the way for software developers to build valuable and functional applications for their users. They are also prime vehicles for building accessibility support into those applications.
- Shahtab Wahid
Driving Organizational Accessibility
The director of business management for the chief accessibility officer and the accessibility team at Microsoft makes the business case for elevating accessibility support to priority status.
- Vinnie Donati
DEPARTMENTS
You Don't Know Jack About AI
Modern AI defies a precise definition. It is not the AI of science fiction. Nor is it ChatGPT. It is best characterized as capturing important patterns and variations in data, and it still requires a measure of human judgment calls.
- Sonja Johnson-Yu and Sanket Shah
COLUMNS
THE BIKE SHED
Civics is Boring. So, Let's Encrypt Something!
IT professionals can either passively suffer political solutions to encryption or participate in the process to achieve something less awful. Here's one proposal that won't go far, but it's a start.
- Poul-Henning Kamp
KODE VICIOUS
Building on Shaky Ground
The CrowdStrike debacle tells us we must look at how systems software is built with unsafe languages on unsafe hardware that's connected to an untrusted network. Or we risk the same, and worse, happening again.
- George V. Neville-Neil
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